RealGM Advertiser Malware

[DelaneyRudd]

The virus doctor struck again! And I being a dumb person clicked restore session.

[CR Reina]

I keep being redirected to:

http://ads.adsonar.com/adserving/getAds ... acementIds

Hope that helps.

You need to edit your HOST FILE to have that site blocked. See page 1
for instruction.

These ads have been removed.

[CR Reina]

The virus doctor struck again! And I being a dumb person clicked restore session.

Can you please describe what happened?

[DelaneyRudd]

It went to a site where it warned me that Viruses may invade my computer and I should purchase their product. I clicked the back button and it popped up a false option windows warning saying my computer may be at risk if I don't buy their product. If you click cancel or no it just puts you back on the ad. Clicking on the X to exit the browser brought the same false option warning. The only option I had was cntl alt delete, and losing all my other tabs (which wasn't a big deal that time) because restoring the session went back to the virus doctor. I didn't get the address of the site, it's the same one people above have been complaining about. It only happens at work because I can't use any ad blocking software because I work for a website and need to see ads.

[CR Reina]

Adsonar has been removed completely from RealGM, so that problem should not occur again. Please let me know if it does.

[penzias]

Yt's not malware but the nba live ads are slowing down the forum like hell. I got a 6 Mb connection and still takes 4-5 seconds to load every time i open a page.

[Bleeding Blue]

Yt's not malware but the nba live ads are slowing down the forum like hell. I got a 6 Mb connection and still takes 4-5 seconds to load every time i open a page.

I agree. The ads make navigating throughout the site very time consuming and frustrating. The NFL Redzone ones are bad too.

[Rooster]

Today marks my second time having to deal with Antivirus System Pro. (Last time was about a week ago.) Each time, RealGM was my only open internet window. I'm actually using my desktop right now because my laptop's pretty well out of commission... seems the second attack is worse than the first. The rkill and anti-malware I downloaded last time aren't doing a thing, and I can't use the internet on the laptop except to see the wonderful spam sites the malware's throwing my way.

EDIT: Managed to get rkill going (hooray for running the same application 30 times) and anti-malware is scanning now. My laptop should be working fine soon but it's still not thrilling.